United Steelworkers Local 4601 Announces 2007 Christmas Donations
United Steelworkers Local 4601 of Olean, is proud to announce that this year's Christmas Donations were an all time high of $9,338. This money was raised through weekly raffles and was distributed to youth and other charitable organizations. This figure does not include the over $3000 raised from weekly 50-50 drawings to benefit Gil's Hills of Bolivar, New York. President John Baglione said that the Local has dedicated ...... more

USW Calls Affirmative Preliminary Anti-Subsidy Duty
The United Steelworkers (USW) welcomed the U.S. Department of Commerce’s decision to impose preliminary countervailing duties on new pneumatic off-the-road (OTR) tires from China as benefiting from government subsidies. “Yesterday’s decision is just one step towards holding producers in China to the same standards ...... more

Union Announces 2007 Payment Increase for ArcelorMittal VEBA Participants
Union Announces 2007 Payment Increase for ArcelorMittal VEBA Participants Benefit Trust to Reimburse Retirees, Spouses for Medicare Premiums For Immediate Release November 29, 2007 PITTSBURGH - The United Steelworkers (USW) today announced that some 53,000 retirees and surviving spouses who lost health care coverage in the bankruptcies of four steel ...... more

USW Applauds Commerce Dept. Duties on Glossy Paper Imports Anti-subsidy, Dumping Tariffs Placed on China, Indonesia, S.Korea Producers
For the first time ever, the U.S. is applying tariffs to counteract government subsidies benefiting goods imported from China in the form of countervailing duties. Up until this decision, China has enjoyed special treatment as a non-market economy that exempted it from anti-subsidy tariffs. Both Indonesia and South Korea are considered market economies....... more

NLRB General Counsel Accuses FiberMark Management of Federal Labor Law Violations
The United Steelworkers (USW) today announced that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel has alleged that FiberMark Holdings, LLC, committed federal labor law violations at the paper plant here for unilaterally cutting retiree pensions, health care insurance, slashing wages for workers by up to $6.00 per hour and other offenses....... more

Nuclear Weapons Sites Continue to Fail Monitoring Workers
Sick former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant workers in Colorado were told last June that those employed at the plant after 1966 could not receive expedited compensation and medical care because radiation monitoring had improved since the 1950s and early 1960s and there were adequate exposure records....... more

USW, REP Reach Tentative Agreement on 5-Year Contract
The United Steelworkers (USW) today announced that the union has reached tentative agreement on a new contract with Fairlawn, Ohio based Republic Engineered Products (REP) and has, after months of intense negotiations and working past contract expiration, averted a labor dispute. Approximately 2,000 USW-represented hourly production and maintenance and office and technical employees at REP facilities in Lorain, Canton and Massillon, Ohio; Lackawanna, N.Y.; and Gary, Ind. will discuss the proposed agreement with their local and international union negotiating committees before voting on whether to accept or reject the proposed five-year contract. ...... more

USW Calls for Regulation of Private Equity to Prevent Another Pension Fund Meltdown
Speaking Wednesday before the Harvard Labor and Worklife conference on Managing Labor’s Capital, United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard called for Congressional action to ensure that private pools of capital are required to play by the same societal rules as other pools of capital. “As more and more pension funds are shoveling tons of cash ...... more

USW President to Deliver Keynote at Harvard Labor and Worklife Conference
USW International President Leo W. Gerard will discuss the growing risks to pension funds posed by the explosive growth of unregulated private equity. He’ll also discuss labor’s leverage of its pension investments. Challenging the financialization of capital markets is one of several new initiatives at the USW, North America’s largest industrial union. Gerard will discuss several of these efforts, ranging from environmental ...... more